In a weekend dedicated largely to basketball’s collegiate level, the Brooklyn Nets still got busy. Playing host to the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks on Saturday and Sunday, they split their pair of games the way you’d expect them to, falling to the ever-mighty boys from Beantown before topping their notoriously mediocre foes to the south.
Despite Brooklyn making up no ground in the standings, they looked like victors each time we saw them, putting up an admirable fight shorthanded vs the league’s best and then stiff-arming one of the association’s hotter teams down the stretch en route to a win.